From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.5.8 sort kernel tables
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:24:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020418182444.GV21206@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1589.1019123186@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <1589.1019123186@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20020418135931.GU21206@holomorphy.com> <8N7App8mw-B@khms.westfalen.de>
wli@holomorphy.com (William Lee Irwin III) wrote on 18.04.02 in <20020418135931.GU21206@holomorphy.com>:
>> It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
>> besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
>> easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
>> algorithm ever" etc.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:16:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
Perhaps I should have qualified it with "plausible" or something. The
intent is clear regardless.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-18 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-18 9:46 [RFC] 2.5.8 sort kernel tables Keith Owens
2002-04-18 10:21 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-18 10:32 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-18 10:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-18 13:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-18 15:38 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-18 15:52 ` Russell King
2002-04-18 16:09 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-18 13:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-18 18:16 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-04-18 18:24 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-04-19 11:46 ` David Weinehall
2002-04-18 20:20 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-19 4:59 ` Matt
2002-04-19 13:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-19 13:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-19 14:25 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-19 15:16 ` Tobias Wollgam
[not found] <1589.1019123186@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <15550.50131.489249.256007@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-18 17:51 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-18 23:17 ` Keith Owens
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2002-04-19 11:38 Randal, Phil
2002-04-20 5:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-20 8:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-20 9:40 ` Keith Owens
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